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The Open Definition - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge

The Open Definition - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Knowledge
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- Data Portals IRF | International Road Federation Data mining Process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets Data mining is the process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems.[1] Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and statistics with an overall goal of extracting information (with intelligent methods) from a data set and transforming the information into a comprehensible structure for further use.[1][2][3][4] Data mining is the analysis step of the "knowledge discovery in databases" process, or KDD.[5] Aside from the raw analysis step, it also involves database and data management aspects, data pre-processing, model and inference considerations, interestingness metrics, complexity considerations, post-processing of discovered structures, visualization, and online updating.[1] Etymology[edit] Background[edit] The manual extraction of patterns from data has occurred for centuries. Process[edit]

The Best SaaS Landing page examples I’ve seen (+ their secrets for conversion) Usually, I don’t advise anyone to use other websites as reference since they have different business needs and people need to understand their context and their strategy to be able to apply them properly. It’s extremely rare that you find SaaS Landing pages with a great focus on converting visitors into customers and not only the pretty stuff.‍ I’ve compiled the best examples of SaaS Landing pages I’ve seen over the years (1000’s of them) into actionable examples you can use as reference! In this article, I also break down why they are great examples and how you can use them in your own SaaS website to convert more visitors into customers. Clear Header examples Aka top of the page. This will be your first impression of your product and if you don’t get it right people will leave the page within a few seconds and not give you chance to explain your product. What makes a great header? Crazyegg Lobe.ai This just makes for a terrible explanation of the product and no reason to convert :( Plutio Stared

Open data strategy - Publications We have changed our Open Data Strategy. It incorporates new cross-government measures from the Cabinet Office publication of the National Information Infrastructure and related Dataset Inventories. The Strategy builds on the commitments outlined in the department’s original strategy published in June 2012 and summarises our important activities and data releases planned over the next 2 years. The strategy is split into the following important sections: We publish updates every 6 months on how we are meeting our commitments in the open data strategy. Our information strategy draws on a common set of information principles designed to help the public sector become increasingly aligned in using and managing information.

Amazon Ion Amazon Ion is a richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. The text format (a superset of JSON) is easy to read and author, supporting rapid prototyping. The binary representation is efficient to store, transmit, and skip-scan parse. The rich type system provides unambiguous semantics for long-term preservation of business data which can survive multiple generations of software evolution. Available Libraries: Ion Java – Ion C – Ion Python – Ion JavaScript Related Projects: Ion Schema Latest News Ion Schema Specification 1.0 Released 05 November 2018 This new specification describes a language and set of constraints used to declaratively constrain Ion values. assert that a value meets specific expectations, generate developer-friendly APIs for working with data, enable efficient analysis over data that conforms to a type, and more! Amazon Redshift Spectrum Adds Nested Ion Support 09 August 2018

Open Data in the United Kingdom There have been campaigns in the UK for its government to open up the large amounts of data it has for greater public usage without prohibitively large fees. Currently some UK public sector data are released under a Creative Commons compatible license. Overview[edit] Crown Copyright has been a long standing copyright protection applied to official works, and at times artistic works, produced under royal or official supervision. The Guardian newspaper's Technology section began a "Free Our Data" campaign, calling for data gathered by authorities at public expense to be made freely available for reuse by individuals. Open Government Licence[edit] The OGL symbol introduced with version 2.0 of the licence to indicate content covered by the licence Data holders[edit] Crown Copyright is the default copyright applied to all government department published documents.[6] Met Office[edit] Ordnance Survey[edit] Ordnance Survey has been subject to criticisms. Transport Direct[edit] History[edit]

3. Environments, Elements, and Information - Understanding Context [Book] Chapter 3. Environments, Elements, and Information Context is worth 80 IQ points. SOCIAL NETWORKS AND AIRPORTS don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re part of a wider world. And humans didn’t evolve with mobile phones in hand. Figure 3-1. We might look at this landscape and assume that there’s not much information here, but there actually is. Most of this environment happened all on its own, growing naturally. Keep this field in mind as a starting point, because from here on out, we will be looking at everything we make—digital devices or websites, phone apps or cross-channel services—as structure we add to the environment around us, not unlike this wall, which is deceptively simple at first glance, but full of meaningful layers upon closer reflection. A Conventional Definition of Context One challenge we have when grappling with contextual issues comes from our conventional assumptions about what context is to begin with. This convention is baked into our official dictionary definitions. Agent

Putting Government Data online Up to Design Issues Abstract Government data is being put online to increase accountability, contribute valuable information about the world, and to enable government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. All of these purposes are served by putting the information on the Web as Linked Data. Introduction This, 2009, is the year for putting government data online. So if you want to do this, what should you do? Using Linked Data as the interconnection bus Government data is put online typically for 3 reasons: Increasing citizen awareness of government functions to enable greater accountability; Contributing valuable information about the world; and Enabling the government, the country, and the world to function more efficiently. Each of these purposes is best served by using Linked Data techniques. In general Linked Data is: Open: Linked Data is accessible through an unlimited variety of applications and applications because it is expressed in open, non-proprietary formats.

STRIPS Definition[edit] A STRIPS instance is composed of: An initial state;The specification of the goal states – situations which the planner is trying to reach;A set of actions. For each action, the following are included: preconditions (what must be established before the action is performed);postconditions (what is established after the action is performed). Mathematically, a STRIPS instance is a quadruple , in which each component has the following meaning: is a set of conditions (i.e., propositional variables); is a set of operators (i.e., actions); each operator is itself a quadruple , each element being a set of conditions. A plan for such a planning instance is a sequence of operators that can be executed from the initial state and that leads to a goal state. Formally, a state is a set of conditions: a state is represented by the set of conditions that are true in it. is a function where is the set of all subsets of , and is therefore the set of all possible states. The transition function if

Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes - Williamson - 2008 - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Abstract Recent advances in our understanding of the importance of continental‐ to global‐scale connectivity among terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems make consideration of aquatic–terrestrial linkages an urgent ecological and environmental issue. Here, we describe the role of inland waters as sentinels and integrators of the impact of humans on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Aquatic ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to environmental change and many are, at present, severely degraded. Concurrently, global climate change is transforming aquatic ecosystems (Poff et al. 2002). The most important questions are: how do we begin to understand the causes of such large‐scale changes in aquatic ecosystems, and how can we forecast and prepare for those changes? The role of lakes and streams as sentinels and integrators We argue that metabolism should be a primary response variable if we are to understand the impacts of climate change, land use, and nitrogen deposition (Table 1).

SKOS Play! - Thesaurus & Taxonomies SKOS Play is a free application to render and visualise thesaurus, taxonomies or controlled vocabularies expressed in SKOS. With SKOS Play you can print Knowledge Organization Systems that use the SKOS data model in HTML or PDF documents, and visualize them in graphical representations. SKOS Play can be used : to test and verify a vocabulary during the conception phase to exchange and communicate the vocabulary when validating it with domain experts to publish it when it is shared on the web. SKOS Play also provides a way to convert Excel spreadsheets to SKOS files. This makes it easy to produce SKOS files for taxonomies and authorities list. The converter can even generate data in other RDF vocabularies. Now you can also validate your SKOS data using the SKOS Testing Tool. The SKOS Testing Tool is a frontend for qSKOS by Christian Mader.

Commotion Construction Kit | Commotion Wireless The Commotion Construction Kit is a set of documentation tools that the Open Technology Institute has used in workshops around the world and at home. It is a “do it ourselves” guide to building community wireless networks. You can use them on your own or to work with a group of people. Like the Commotion software, these materials are open source, which means development on them continues and community involvement is critical. You can also download a .zip archive file of containing PDF versions of all current Commotion Construction Kit modules and supporting activities. Getting Started What is a community network? Planning The first steps in building a wireless network with your community involve organizing and planning. Design your Network: Every Network Tells a Story: A game that helps communities think through network planning and the social networks upon which community wireless relies. Installing and Configuring Commotion is supported on several types of routers. Building and Mounting

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